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Re: Give Each Blog Post a Pretty Face With Flickr

Janna — Wed, 04 May 2011 15:46:37 -0000

Thank you for this post. I am a new blogger and was close to giving up on Flickr because I'd find a lovely photo but it was restricted. You've inspired me to try again with my next post.

Re: Give Each Blog Post a Pretty Face With Flickr

Keith Davis — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 17:41:44 -0000

Hi Chris
Not much to add other than within the creative3 commons section, there is an option which says "interesting" if you click that you get... the most interesting photos.

Nearly all the photos I use are from Flickr, would recommend them to anyone.

Re: Give Each Blog Post a Pretty Face With Flickr

metin2 oyun hilesi — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 05:13:36 -0000

tahnks...

Re: Give Each Blog Post a Pretty Face With Flickr

metin2 — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:49:32 -0000

tahnk you very nice

Re: Give Each Blog Post a Pretty Face With Flickr

metin2 hile — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:48:40 -0000

thanks....

Re: Give Each Blog Post a Pretty Face With Flickr

yes — Mon, 03 May 2010 03:25:16 -0000

very nice

Re: Give Each Blog Post a Pretty Face With Flickr

thank you — Sun, 02 May 2010 07:25:23 -0000

very nice thank you

thanks for sharing

Re: Give Each Blog Post a Pretty Face With Flickr

Multihack — Sun, 02 May 2010 07:24:15 -0000

yes thanks....very nice megadosya

Re: Give Each Blog Post a Pretty Face With Flickr

megadosya — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 06:23:01 -0000

Thank you!! I also like to use relevant pics with my blog posts and have trouble finding credits to go with them when I search elsewhere.

yes robin...

thanks...very goood

Re: Give Each Blog Post a Pretty Face With Flickr

CoreBloggers — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:34:59 -0000

very useful post :)

Re: Give Each Blog Post a Pretty Face With Flickr

ScottAllen — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 02:49:11 -0000

I've been using this same technique for a while - I started it on my Linked Intelligence blog while I was at b5media - it just makes the whole thing more visually interesting. There's not enough money in blogging for most bloggers to pay for even microstock photography licenses, so thank you so much to all of the people who freely share their photos.

By the way, another great site for free photos is http://sxc.hu aka "Stock Exchange". It's not a CC license, but basically the same as the CC Attribution license.

Re: Give Each Blog Post a Pretty Face With Flickr

Vandy — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 12:38:46 -0000

Really useful post. I have been using Flickr's creative commons feature for a while now, but was going into the advanced search on the site to find photos.

This post gave me 2 great tips:
- I love the idea of make the photo itself a link to the photographer's page
- and I have now put the link to the search page on my bookmark toolbar so I can find it fast when I'm blogging.

Thanks very much.

@VandyMassey

Re: Give Each Blog Post a Pretty Face With Flickr

Ted Mackel — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:04:32 -0000

Chris, Great post. I buy photos many times, but for some simple stuff it would be nice to use your system with FLICKR.

Re: Give Each Blog Post a Pretty Face With Flickr

JG — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 06:46:46 -0000

Thanks Chris!

How to do if I using Flickr to store my images and link to my blog post ? I means reader only view my images from my blog.

I am confusing of using Flickr.

Thanks Again :)

Re: Give Each Blog Post a Pretty Face With Flickr

Amanda Eamich — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:47:03 -0000

Late to the party, but The Commons is a GREAT repository of high-res images from Federal, state, and now international organizations. http://www.flickr.com/commons

@amandare

Re: Give Each Blog Post a Pretty Face With Flickr

Stephen Boyle — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:55:30 -0000

As a blogger and photographer I highly value key photos on posts. They do attract attention, provided they theme properly with the content. As a Flickr member I've had people inquire about using my photos for publication but as yet have had nobody offer payment. This brings me to the point of which CC licensing is in place - attribution, non-commercial, no derivatives, share alike. So the point is each publishing site thus far has not been very small or commercial. I have searched recently and found a photo on a large commercial site, with a link back to my photo on Flickr. So now I'm faced with approaching the site about addressing licensing concerns. Not only that but the article is written in such a manner that it might be considered defaming, especially since it has my brand/name on it clearly. The situation being a matter against a larger entity I had marketed which ended up shut-down as a pyramid scheme. This begs the point of informing your source that their photo is being used and having approval. Flickr terms of use states link-through of images, by doing so if the photographer pulls down the image it would disappear from all sources referencing it. If you approach the photographer and ask for a copy, then you'll not be under the terms of use of the host site. Thanking them through accrediting the source for discovery is a courtesy at that point.

Re: Give Each Blog Post a Pretty Face With Flickr

Charane — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:13:03 -0000

Thank you for this article. I'm new to the world of ecommerce & blogging. My marketing guy (www.precisionintermedia.com) forwarded your article http://www.chrisbrogan.com/...
and 1 of your points was to give credit for pics. It took all day for me to figure out the flickr thing & giving credit (I didn't want to mess it up). This post has clarified that I did it correctly! One of my concerns was that the photographer wouldn't want me to use the photo for my blog but according to the rest of the comments it only sometimes becomes an issue.
Thank you again from a newbie,
Charane
www.everythinggreenhome.blo...

Re: Give Each Blog Post a Pretty Face With Flickr

Lane Romero-Reiss — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:46:58 -0000

Hi Chris,

Thanks for those links. I browsed each site a little bit, but I'm not clear on the best method for attribution if I use music clips from them. If I give proper attribution, is that all I need to safely use the music from these sites?

On another note, I'd love to link my messages to a profile and pic, as many others have done here. I'm not seeing where to register my profile information, though. Any guidance will be appreciated.

Lane Reiss

Re: Give Each Blog Post a Pretty Face With Flickr

Conrad — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:20:52 -0000

Thanks for this! Great idea and very informative!

I have not used Flickr in forever, but I think I'll start using it again after reading this!

Re: Give Each Blog Post a Pretty Face With Flickr

Bill @ Muscle-Build.com — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:03:34 -0000

Great concept! I LOVE Flickr as a user, but rarely think of using the CC photos there! Duh!!! Some things are so simple...as to be forgotten. Thanks for "re-reminding" me!

Re: Give Each Blog Post a Pretty Face With Flickr

Grow Your Business with Ease — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 12:22:29 -0000

Love this post today Chris. I have always wondered how i can start using flickers photo on my blog.

Thanks
:)
Joyce
www.beawealthyentrepreneur.com

Re: Give Each Blog Post a Pretty Face With Flickr

Mike Moran — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 12:00:04 -0000

I agree with the others on Zemanta. I've been using it for a few months and while it doesn't often suggest a good picture based on my content alone, I can always enter search words to find something useful. And it automatically finds pictures that I can use legally, and it attributes them right under the picture just as you requested. I won't go back to searching FlickR by hand now.

Re: Give Each Blog Post a Pretty Face With Flickr

AM — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:49:04 -0000

Thank you chris for the information. Described in a very user friendly way.
cheers,

Re: Give Each Blog Post a Pretty Face With Flickr

Lindsay — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 14:07:05 -0000

I agree - Zemanta makes adding pictures to blog posts a dream. I really like the photos they suggest. Zemanta also suggests some related posts to link to - I have learned about some great blogs from their suggestions. Once you start using Zemanta your posts become part of the suggested posts for others and I have gained some extra traffic that way too.

Here is my write up on Zemanta http://blogtelling.net/2008/07/blog-me-up-checking-out-zemanta/

Re: Give Each Blog Post a Pretty Face With Flickr

WebDesigner — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 12:41:05 -0000

nice article

thanks for sharing